What do you carry on/in your turnout gear/bunker gear?

[rescue1man]

Guys and girls, I know this is a junior post, but I stop in every once in a while to see what is happening with the juniors nowadays. I notice some of you are carring every piece of equipment you could possibly stuff into your turnout gear. This is probably not the wisest thing to do. For one you are adding a lot of unneeded wieght to something that is heavy enough as it is, and two, you are carrying a lot of things that are not needed that often.
What I would suggest,(this is what I and a lot of other guys that work here do), is have a small duffle bag. Carry your extra gloves, and masks and wrenches and shirts for cold weather in your bag. When you go to a fire, pull out your masks and what ever else you need and take it with you, There is no use in carrying all of this excess weight every where and on every call you run. Carry only the basics in your turnouts, Gloves, hood, and flashlight.Everything else, stick in your bag. (Just remember to bring your bag with when you get on the truck.

Just something to think about. This is a very common practice for a lot of departments to carry a small duffle bag.

So try this out. It will take a lot of weight off of you, make your gear fit better.

And for the person that was asking about the exploding golf balls, if you have a golf ball in your pocket and it explodes, you will already be dead because if a golf ball gets hot enough too explode, I can promise you that your turnout gear will already be in a ball of flames.

Everyone have a nice day, I hope this advice helps,

Thats what I do! I have pretty much the basics in my turnouts, and a small bag with an extra hood, fire gloves, small personal tool, bottle of water, t-shirt and socks, cleanup gloves, winter hat, etc. Makes a HUGE difference in your gear in terms of weight!

I know this thread is quite old, but thats okay I guess. My lid has 2 door chocks and a small bundle of nails. Coat has fire gloves in their respective side pockets, knife, door chock, screwdriver and folding spanner split b/w the two, also 12' webbing in the radio pocket. Pants has 34' rope with 2 beaners in the right and seatbelt cutter and wire cutters in the left. Thats it for me...

[sunj51]

Helmet:
Accountability tags

Coat:
Survivor light
Extrication gloves
2 pairs on Nitrile gloves
CPR mask
Nomex hood
Spare flashlight
Leatherman Crater knife
Med. sized wood door chock
Structural gloves and scba mask clipped on the front with quick release snap

Bunkers:
2 Caribiners
30ft Rescue rope
Wire cutters
Spare hood

[Beaver52]

2 pairs on Nitrile gloves

Has anyone had a problem with these melting in their gear while in a fire situation?

[donfoster14]

i carry the basics pair of firefighting gloves a pair if rescue gloves a cloth cross my gram made me and wedges and flashlight led and a colapseable spannerwrench and id tags

[PoolerFire]

[Helmet]

1. Accountability tags

2. Flashlight

3. ID card

[Coat]

1. Radio

2. Gloves

3. Flashlight

[Pants]

1. Hood

2. Fire and Rescue field guide

3. EMS gloves

4. Wire cutters

5. Screwdriver (Flat head and Philips)

6. Spare flashlight

7. Pliers

[SCBA *personal*]

1. Mask

2. PASS

[Chenzo]

Helmet-
Two wedges (can be used for either door or sprinkler shutoff)
Sidewalk chalk
Flashlight
Coat-
Right angle flashlight
Multi tool
4 in 1 screwdriver
Channel lock pliers
Vise grips
Knife
Pants-
25' of webbing with two beaners
Extra 15' of webbing
Extra wedge
Res-q-wrench
Channel lock multi pliers (the linesman/wire cutter/gas shut off/glassbreaker combi tool)
Ems gloves in a puch on my suspenders
I carry a bag with extra gloves and two extra hoods, sweatshirt, tshirt, extra socks, some pens, ems scissors, extra rope.)

[Tanker1-24]

Helmet-2 wedges

Coat-PAT tags, Survivor Light, Xtrication Gloves (on strap)
Radio Pocket- (empty)
Left Pocket-Kobalt Utility Knife, Spring Loaded Center Punch, EMS Shears, 2-3 pair EMS gloves
Right Pocket- ANSI Vest, Snuff, Advil
Inside-Nomex Hood

Pants

Left- Left fire glove
Right-Right fire glove, 15 ft. webbing

[Doorbreaker]

Easy for me.

Helmet- Spare hood in to roof.
Coat - Tags and rescue strobe
Left pocket - gloves, window punch, folding spanner small hand light
Right pocket - extrication gloves, EMS gloves
Left radio pocket - PASS alarm and high band radio
Right radio pocket - Low band portable OR right angle light

Pants - self rescue webbing and hook, Cylume sticks in steel sleeves (small conduit) chalk,
Plus if my vehicle is on scene (usually is) I carry a case of water, two boxes of assorted granola bars, individual drink mix packs in various flavors, all either electrolyte enhanced OR vitamen enhanced. Med bag. Several pairs of safety glasses, couple of blankets, splints and some chocking blocks. Plus half a case of flares and traffic director lights.

[FDNY78]

Whats up Brothers!

I carry the following in or on my coat (i'm a truckie) I keep it light and I always have my light around my waist:

20 ft of webbing
pair of extrication gloves
channel locks
wire cutters
20 ft of utility rope with a carabiner(sp) on the end
a shove knife
screw driver
knife
2 chocks

On my helmet:
chock
5 ten penny nails
and various hood ornaments that I collected at car fires lol

[CGITCH]

I suppose I will do mine...

Helmet- Nomex tucked up under suspension
Coat- I pair mechanix gloves used for things not involving fire, pocket knife, earplugs, facepiece wipes, med gloves
Pants- gloves in a loop i made clipped on the side, 1 non locking biner, multi-bit screwdriver, el cheapo flashlight (if I need a good one i grab my stinger out of my truck) crescent wrench, and occasionaly a pair of v-grips, linemans, or channel locks finds their way in there

[SOUTHWINDSORFIRE]

I try to keep my gear as light as possible while still getting the job done as fast as possbile and safely as possible

Helmet-
(1) Streamlight 4AA flashlight mounted via bracket
(1) Streamlight rubber band
(1) Allen wrench to adjust light bracket, tucked into rubber band
(1) Nomex hood tucked away inside of the web suspension
(1) ESS Goggles
(1) wooden chock, tucked into rubber band

Coat-
(1) Shelby fire gloves attached to outside of coat via glove strap
(1) accountability tag
(1) 1 pack of 5 Gum
(1) spring loaded window punch
(1) Smith and Wesson ExtremeOps partiality serrated folding knife
(1) LED AA Mini Maglite

Bunker Pants-
(1) RES-Q-RENCH
(1) FUEL safety glasses
(1) small metal folding spanner wrench
(1) GALLS rescue multi-tool

Things I am going to add-
nitrile gloves
more wood chocks

Just some thoughts-
I don't carry 10 pairs of med gloves. 1) we dont run medicals in my dept. 2) explorers are not allowed to go to car wrecks

I don't carry gloves other than my regular fire ones. My dad, having been in the fire service for over 25 years, has told me not to carry any light duty gloves for clean up. He told me to always wear my real fire gloves no matter what. Now im not gonna argue with him because im sure hes learned the hard way. he carries fire gloves and extrication gloves, only because he can go to wrecks.

Stay Safe Brothers - Keep Putting The Wet Stuff On The Red Stuff

[RS1606]

well for me it is
Helmet:
a wooden cross in the intertube light holder i have
a helmet light
2 sprinkler wedges
no mex hood, i keep it in the google garage on the back of the helmet
face shield, use to have goggles but the broke.

Coat:
resq wrench
10 ft of rope
small wire cutters both sides
large wire cutters both sides
first response knife
extra window punch
flash light
led survivor light
leather work gloves
firefighting gloves

Pants:
a dust mask
a quick strap to hold back a door
small wire cuters
large wire cutrers
a knife
window punch
whistle
wooden glowflex door stopper

[CaptOldTimer]

I carry my self.

The rest of my PPE, I wear. The tools I get off of the apparatus.

The rookies carry all that other stuff.

[RS1606]

Guys and girls, I know this is a junior post, but I stop in every once in a while to see what is happening with the juniors nowadays. I notice some of you are carring every piece of equipment you could possibly stuff into your turnout gear. This is probably not the wisest thing to do. For one you are adding a lot of unneeded wieght to something that is heavy enough as it is, and two, you are carrying a lot of things that are not needed that often.
What I would suggest,(this is what I and a lot of other guys that work here do), is have a small duffle bag. Carry your extra gloves, and masks and wrenches and shirts for cold weather in your bag. When you go to a fire, pull out your masks and what ever else you need and take it with you, There is no use in carrying all of this excess weight every where and on every call you run. Carry only the basics in your turnouts, Gloves, hood, and flashlight.Everything else, stick in your bag. (Just remember to bring your bag with when you get on the truck.

Just something to think about. This is a very common practice for a lot of departments to carry a small duffle bag.

So try this out. It will take a lot of weight off of you, make your gear fit better.

And for the person that was asking about the exploding golf balls, if you have a golf ball in your pocket and it explodes, you will already be dead because if a golf ball gets hot enough too explode, I can promise you that your turnout gear will already be in a ball of flames.

Everyone have a nice day, I hope this advice helps,

well sir i am actually an explorer in your department so thank you very much for your tip.

[SOUTHWINDSORFIRE]

I carry my self.

The rest of my PPE, I wear. The tools I get off of the apparatus.

The rookies carry all that other stuff.

I get tools off the truck too. i dont carry a halligan or a hurst tool in my pocket. Carrying lifesaving tools in your pockets is not for rookies. i would consider a rookie someone who doesnt carry anything

[RS1606]

I get tools off the truck too. i dont carry a halligan or a hurst tool in my pocket. Carrying lifesaving tools in your pockets is not for rookies. i would consider a rookie someone who doesnt carry anything

i agree with you, everything i have in my gear i use on any carwreck of fire call. is all the stuff i need not stuff i think i will need.

[mazofire34]

Helmet:
1 flashlight
1 door chock
nomex hood tucked inside above webbing

Coat:
Utility knife
Nitrile Gloves
Safety glasses inside

Pants:
1 Gerber tool
Structural Gloves
Rescue Gloves
20 feet of webbing
Saftey Glasses
Flashlight

[merchan5967]

Helmet: 1 Door wedge
2 Sprinkler wedges
Flashlight (avoid Garrity lights; they don't last long and don't hold up well in fires)

Coat: Gloves
Hood
Pass tags
Linemans Plyers

Pants: 20 ft of rope

My extrication gloves I leave on the truck. Any other tools I need I grab from the truck. My radio I keep in a radio strap.

[Tnpipeman]

Helmet:
1. 2 large wooden door stops.

Coat:
1. 2 accountability tags
2. 1 LED flashlight
3. 1 20' tubular webbing
4. 2 small rubber sprinkler stops
5. 1 pump operator quick guide sheet
6. 1 mini mag flash light
7. 1 window punch
8. 1 carbon hood
9. radio w/mic
10. 1 knife
11. 1 pair of fire gloves (hanging on coat)
12. 2 pair of safety glasses (1 tinted 1 clear)

Pants:
1. 50' escape rope with 2 carabiners and 1 small rescue 8 descender
2. 1 Shove knive
3. 1 large rubber door stop
4. 1 small cresent wrench
5. 1 leatherman multi tool
6. 2 pair of medical gloves
7. 1 mulit use spanner wrench with pry end
8. 1 8 ft tubular webbing with two handles tied in each end

Belt
1. 1 large ladder carabiner
2. 1 tool holster
3. 1 8 ft piece of webbing with loops tied in each end

[RS1606]

Belt
1. 1 large ladder carabiner
2. 1 tool holster
3. 1 8 ft piece of webbing with loops tied in each end

what do you think about the Belts? i have been thinking about getting one.
so please let me know, thanks and God bless